The Institute for Media Innovation (IMI), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) are pleased to announce the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2015) to be held on May 11-13, 2015 at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

CASA was founded in 1988 in Geneva, Switzerland and it is the oldest international Conference in Computer Animation and Social Agents in the world. We seek full papers, short papers, and posters on a broad range of research topics, including but not limited to:

• Social Robots
• Motion Control
• Motion Capture and Retargeting
• Physics-based Animation
• Image and Vision Based Animation
• Behavioral Animation
• Deformable bodies and surfaces
• Facial Animation
• Image-based Animation
• Multi-Resolution and Multi-Scale Models
• Knowledge-based Animation
• Avatars and Autonomous Virtual Humans
• Emotion and Personality for Virtual Humans and Social Robots
• Social and Conversational Agents
• Inter-Agent Communication
• Social Behavior
• Crowd Simulation
• Action Recognition and Understanding
• Memory and Long-term Interaction for Virtual Humans and Social Robots
• Animation Compression and Transmission
• Semantics and Ontologies in Animation
• Anthropometric Virtual Human Models
• Animation in Cultural Heritage
• 3D Physiological Humans
• 3D Telepresence
• Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

The best 30 accepted full papers will be published in a special issue of the Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal published by Wiley.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline:
Full Papers (10 pages): January 25, 2015
Short Papers (4 pages) and Posters (1 page) : March 20, 2015

Notification of Acceptance:
Full Papers (10 pages): February 27, 2015
Short Papers (4 pages) and Posters (1 page) : April 4, 2015

Camera Ready:
Full papers (10 pages): March 11, 2015
Short Papers (4 pages) and Posters (1 page) : April 11, 2015

Conference Chairs
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore & MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Junfeng Yao, Xiamen University, China

Program Chairs
Jian Jun Zhang, Bournemouth University, UK
Daniel Thalmann, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore & EPFL, Switzerland

Local arrangement Co-chairs
Zerrin Yumak, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jun Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore